2nd place

Six

Your name is Harriet Leitner, and you and your twin sister Demi turned six this morning! You're having a fancy dress birthday party, and this afternoon you'll be playing Hide and Seek Tip over in the park. You can't wait to catch all your friends.

3rd place

The Play
A dress rehearsal gone horribly wrong

Deirdra Kiai

Pull yourself together, Ainsley. Just one more rehearsal until the big day, assuming nothing catastrophic happens. But really, all you have to do is get your motley crew of actors to run their parts once through from beginning to end. How hard can it be?

6th place

The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M

Michael D. Hilborn
(writing as “Edmund Wells”)

Your vision clears as you gently land in an endless landscape. There is the wind, a bleak and chill thing. And there is your sense of uncertainty: You don't know which way to go. Or, maybe, which way you went.

8th place

Kerkerkruip

Victor Gijsbers

Kerkerkruip is a dungeon crawling game that brings interactive fiction and rogue-likes together. With a randomly generated dungeon and a complex world model, every game is different and exciting. Success can only be achieved through tactics and strategy.

9th place

Cana According To Micah

Rev. Stephen Dawson
(writing as “Rev. Stephen Dawson”)

Being an account of the wedding at Cana, by the servant Micah; in which further details, doubtlessly apocryphal, are given of the event, including his contention with a surly Baptist, an interfering orphan, and a proliferation of women named Mary.

13th place
(tie)

Cursed

Nick Rogers

Accused of murdering your best friend, you are about to face the death penalty. But instead you are cursed, transformed into a beast and begin an epic journey to unravel the mystery of the real murderer, why your friend was killed, and undo the curse.

15th place

Cold Iron
A hot summer's tale

Your good axe has gone missing. Reverd Pearson would say you're a careless lunkhead who'd lose his ear if it wasn't nailed on. You figure he's right, a man of the cloth, but that doesn't mean piskeys didn't steal the thing...

16th place

It

The rules of the game are easy. I'm It, so I go and hide. You and the others count to 50, then you have to look for me. If you find me, you have to get into the hiding spot with me. If you're the last person still looking for me, then you lose. Got it?

17th place

Andromeda Awakening

Marco Innocenti

The most important discovery in history. And then, the whole world goes crumbling down. Armed with but a computer and an expired railway ticket, how can one expect to save the day when the doomsday clock has begun ticking...?

22nd place

The Hours

23rd place

Blind
Who says blindness is a handicap?

Andrew Metzger
(writing as “Arman”)

A creep kidnaps you, a blind woman. But you're not as disabled as you look - who says blindness is a handicap?
(Note: some violence, brief textual nudity, and generally scary themes; suggested PG-13 rating)

26th place

Death of Schlig

Peter Timony

Schlig is kidnapped by aliens and turned into a mutant eyeball freak by their experiments. Now Schlig must use his eyes in ways that no human was ever intended to in order to escape from the aliens and find a way back to Earth before he gets eaten.

30th place

Return to Camelot

Finn Rosenløv
(writing as “Po. Prune”)

One minute you're at your office worrying about your finances and the next you're face to face with Merlin the wizard of Camelot. If you help him protect Queen Guinevere, he'll help you get back to your own time, and reward you too.

38th place

Vestiges
Stumbling through Darkness

Joanna Houston
(writing as “Josephine Wynter”)

In the absence of reality, perception must suffice...
You awake in a grave, with no memory of who you are or what happened to you. Using the items around you, you must escape the entity pursuing you and uncover the astounding truth of your origin.